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Important Questions on Chemical Kinetics

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Which among the following reactions can be an example of pseudo first order reaction?
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The half-life period of a first-order chemical reaction is 6.93 minutes. The time required for the completion of 99% of the chemical reaction will be log2=0.301
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The rate constant for a first order reaction is 7.0×10-4 s-1. If initial concentration of the reactant is 0.080 M, what is the half-life of the reaction?
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The half-life period of a first-order reaction is 15 minutes. The amount of substance left after one hour will be
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The rate of a first-order reaction is 0.04 mol l-1s-1 at 10 second and 0.03 mol l-1s-1 at 20 seconds after initiation of the reaction. The half-life period of the reaction is:
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A first-order reaction has a specific reaction rate 10-2sec-1. How much time will it take for 20 g the reactant to reduce to 5 g?
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When initial concentration of a reactant is doubled in a reaction, its half-life period is not affected. The order of the reaction is:
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A flask contains a mixture of compounds A and B. Both compounds decompose by first-order kinetics. The half-lives for A and B are 300 s and 180 s, respectively. If the concentrations of A and B are equal initially, the time required for the concentration of A to be four times that of B (in s) is : (Use ln 2=0.693)
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Decomposition of X exhibits a rate constant of 0.05μg/year. How many years are required for the decomposition of 5μg of X into 2.5μg?
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The rate constant of the reaction AB is 0.6×10-3 mole per liter per second. If the initial concentration of A is 5 M, then the concentration of B after 20 minutes is:
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The rate constant for the first order reaction is 60 s-1. How much time will it take to reduce the concentration of the reactant to 116 th value?
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The half-life of the first-order reaction, CH3CHO (g)CH4 (g)+CO (g), if the initial pressure of CH3CHO (g) is 80mm Hg and the total pressure at the end of 20 minutes is 120mm Hg, is:
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If the rate constant for a first order reaction is k, the time (t) required for the completion of 99% of the reaction is given by
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For a zero - order reaction with rate constant k, the slope of the plot reactant concentration against time is
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A bacterial infection in an internal wound grows as N't=N0exp(t) , where the time t is in hours. A dose of antibiotic, taken orally, needs 1 hour to reach the wound. Once it reaches there, the bacterial population goes down as dNdt=-5N2 . What will be the plot of N0N vs t after 1 hour?
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The half-life for a zero order reaction having 0.02 M initial concentration of reactant is 100 s. The rate constant (in mol L-1s-1) for the reaction is
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The rate constant for a first order reaction is 4.606×103 s1. The time required to reduce 2.0 g of the reactant to 0.2 g is :
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The reaction 2N2O5g4NO2g+O2(g) follows first order kinetics. The pressure of a vessel containing only N2O5 was found to increase from 50 mm Hg to 87.5 mm Hg in 30 min. The pressure exerted by the gases after 60 min. Will be (Assume temperature remains constant) :
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N2O5 decomposes to NO2 and O2 follows the first order kinetics. After 50 minutes, the pressure inside the vessel increases from 50 mm Hg to 87.5 mm Hg. The pressure of the gaseous mixture after 100 minutes at constant temperature will be:
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When initial concentration of the reactant is doubled, what happens to the half-life period of a zero order reaction?